Correspondence.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXII, Issue 6668, 9 September 1905, Page 2

Correspondence.

(We do not hold ourselves responsible for pinions expressed by our correspondents.)

THE ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY,

TO THE EDITOE,

Sir,—Mr Shnry has threataned to resign. If he does so-I don't think he will be asked to reconsider.

Ateithava Pablio or Committee meeting he is dominant and rules the Chairman and everybody else. If anyone has anything to say in the slightest degree opposed to Mr Shury's notion, Mr Shury is on Ins feet; with interruptions—interruptions so deliberate and determined that the man of milder mood is beaten out of the field.

He has in the face of his Committee's instructions brought down an annual report with offensive matter of his own therein after having been instructed that that report was not to be presented. ■'■■ t He has at a, General meeting developed sudden deafness when called upon_ to record a motion voted tor by the meeting, although he had been able to hear well enough to contradict and interrupt the speakers opposed to him. The Chairman had to-write up that minute. There were cases at the last general meeting of men who received no notice. One flagrant case was that of a man who had been asked to tftke an active part in a scheme which Mr Shury opposed.

Now that men take a stand and demand that things shall be done in a proper businesslike way, he virtually asks that they resign and clear the way for him to rule the roost as before.

Mr Shury has done a good deal for fishin?, but nob so much as he would have us believe, and he has got more out of it than any man in the province. I do not refer to the fact that he is paid his expenses for those self-sacrificing trips he takes to put trout here and ther?, nor to the fact that he takes contracts for the erection of the Society's huts and other little jobs, but to the actual fishing, as' fishing. Now, if Mr Shury like 3 personality he is likely to get it, for many Of us are weary of his continually baulking proposals put forward in the best interests of the Society, and disgusted by his attack on good men who are honestly defending the interests of the men that have elected them, and who have no axe to grind.—l am, etc., - " Fancy."